Welcome to my blog. A place for me to share my love of cardmaking, scrapbooking and bug covers with all my friends. Take a look around and see what I have been creating. I am a member of the Cricut MB, it is almost an addiction ;) I love designing and making cards, dabble in scrapbooking and make the original reversible covers for all types of crafting gadgets.
Here are some border punch outs made not with a punch but an Expression and the Design Studio Software. Each border cut will also have and extra cut that you can also use. The .cut file is below the last design, all designs on the same .cut file.
Swirls & Dots carts used: Christmas Cheer, Joys of the Season, Speaking of School
Butterflies & flowers carts used: Joys of the Season, Celebrations, Paper Pups, Walk in my Garden
Shells carts used: Dreams Come True, All Mixed Up, Doodlecharms
February 15Th 2008 is a day the people of Mackay, Queensland in Australia will never forget.We were inundated by a one in two hundred year weather event. The worst flooding/rain disaster in Australia's history for the time span it took to flood most of our town. Here is the time span from my point of view. 4.30am - 5am got up to see where hubby was, he had gotten up at 3am unsettled, found him in asleep in daughters room (she was away for the night)and he couldn't sleep thinking he might wake me in our bed. 5am turn on America's today program, hubby seeing that I am awake joins me back in our bed. 6am Sunrise program begins. sometime after that and maybe 7 am I awoke to the TV not on, thinking my hubby turned it off. Noticed that the clock is no longer on. Storm must have knocked out the power, I was not concerned about that though. Got up and went to get a glass of water, looked to me left into the rumpus room and thought what is all that stuff at the step. On closer inspection I realised that the stuff I saw was things floating in our rumpus room. With a wholly shit and other words I run back to the bedroom screaming to my husband we are flooding. Still not sure of the time, by the time we get back to the rumpus room the water is starting to lap up over the step. What to save first, photos are first on our list and anything that is of sentimental value to us. All is placed up as high as we can get it. Next to save is as much stuff as we can, the water is rising extremely fast about a foot in half an hour and it was still rising. We saved as much as we could and went outside to see what the street was like and OMG, the street rises in the middle and we couldn't see the traffic island in the middle. We were starting to wonder how high is it going to get. Tried ringing family and friends around town and the phones both land line and mobile are not working properly. I manage to get hold of my Aunty down in NSW, I just cried we are flooding and she was devastated for us. The water started to go down and when it had all gone there was such a mess. Carpets saturated, wardrobes and computer desk wet and starting to swell from all the water. The kitchen and bathroom cupboards are also starting to swell. My husband is a DJ at our local community radio and he has about a thousand Cd's that are all over the floor of the rumpus room after floating out of the shelves and bags they were in. As our daughter was not at home, sadly her room was the last thing on our minds and she lost so much, her bed, her many designer bags, clothes, shoes, her computer and sadly her design books she has been designing clothes for about 3 years now and most of her design books were too badly damaged to salvage. We also lost two cars and our caravan, luckily we have insurance and we are going to be OK. It will take some time to recover and to get our house back to the way it was. The main thing is we are all alive, both family and our pets. Despite all the rain and the rapid flooding not one life was lost and for that we should be very grateful.
After coming back from my trip to the US in April 2007 my Husband surprised me by knocking down a dividing wall between my existing craftroom and our spare room, making a HUGE craftroom. Well it has taken some time but I am starting to get it looking like I would like it to. I painted the walls to match the existing room and have almost completed with one wall of storage. Yes it's only one wall but it is a start. Also as you can see we haven't finished the ceiling yet. Here is the progress so far :)
After some very long and hard thinking I have decided to make my covers available to all that wish to purchase them. I have in the past made them and swapped them for items I was unable to obtain here in Australia, but have decided that I should start to cut back on all my goodies and get some money together for my US trip. If you are interested please email me at jackruss00@hotmail.com with your queries. Here is the price list for the covers I make so far. All covers are reversible and have wording of your choice and the appropriate logo to go with the product it is covering. Or I can custom design something for you (no photo's please, as these are too time consuming to produce clear embroidery) See posts below for examples of the covers I have made.
Price list for covers (discount applies for multiple covers)
Expression, Dreamkuts (includes cover for Bind it all) = $30 each
Cricut, Xyron 900 = $25 each
Xyron 500/510, Xyron 250 = $20 each
Cuttlebug = $15 each
Cuttlekids = $12 each
Bind-It-All (on it's own) = $10 each
Xyron X = $7 each
Shipping extra. Amount depends on how many covers are ordered. :)
Here are some more Disney cards that I have designed. They are a bit fiddly to put together, but well worth the effort. Hope you like what you see. I have also included the .cut files for those that have the Design Studio Software.
Here is the first of many Disney birthday cards I made using the new Design Studio software and the Expression cutting machine. Here is the link to the .cut file http://www.mediafire.com/?asy4eddlmjz
WATCH THIS SPACE for more Disney cards coming soon :)
Thanks for checking out my blog, if you have been inspired by what you have seen or have downloaded the contents list/cheat sheet, a small donation would be appreciated. A girl's gotta be able to buy more craft supplies ;)
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